A FINE FRIT-WARE KUBACHI DISH, PERSIA TABRIZ, TIMURID TAMERLANE DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY A FINE FRIT-WARE KUBACHI DISH, PERSIA TABRIZ, TIMURID TAMERLANE DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY

A FINE FRIT-WARE KUBACHI DISH, PERSIA TABRIZ, TIMURID TAMERLANE DYNASTY, LATE 15TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3005363

A fine frit-ware barbed dish resting on a short foot-ring with deep concave sides and a slightly lobed rim, decorated in the centre and around the rim with series of stylized chrysanthemums, painted in cobalt-blue against an opaque white ground. The back with a band of stylized calligraphy.
Diameter: 35 cm.
Height: 8 cm.

Comparison: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto n.909.25.8
Tamerlane’s tableware, Lisa Golombeck, Robert B.Mason and Gauvin A. Bailey, Mazda Publishers 1996, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 USA, page 227, photo XV.
Similar piece in the Musée du Louvre, Paris